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Oct 1
1h 10m

The IRONY Of An Anti-Bullying Dance When...

Christi Lukasiak & Kelly Hyland
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Welcome back to our REWIND series! Christi and Kelly are going back through the archive, re-editing, and re-uploading our old episodes — in order, from the very beginning of Dance Moms. This week, they’re revisiting season 2 episode 4, “No One Likes a Bully,” where Abby somehow decides she’s the perfect person to teach a lesson about bullying....


The group dance is built around the subject, but the irony gets harder to ignore as the week goes on. Holly pushes back on Nia being cast as the bully, Paige is made to sit and watch her replacement rehearse, Payton gets pulled into the middle of the drama, and Christi believes Abby spends the entire week trying to rattle Chloe after she beat Maddie.


What was supposed to be a dance about bullying ends up becoming one of the clearest examples of why Christi and Kelly had such a problem with the way Abby treated the girls in the first place.


We originally aired this episode back in 2022, but it's been re-edited specifically for YouTube!


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